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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The dictionary meaning of a word.






2. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






3. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






4. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






5. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






6. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






7. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






8. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






9. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






10. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






11. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






12. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






13. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






14. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






15. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






16. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






17. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






18. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






19. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






20. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






21. A three-line stanza.






22. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






23. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






24. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






25. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






26. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






27. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






28. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






29. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






30. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






31. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






32. What a story or play is about.






33. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






34. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






35. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






36. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






37. The main character of a literary work.






38. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






39. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






40. A short saying with a moral.






41. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






42. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






43. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






44. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






45. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






46. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






47. A strong pause within a line.






48. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






49. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






50. The series of events that make up a story or drama.







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